Hi there,
May flew by.
Jan Chorowski (CTO Pathway) broke down Baby Dragon Hatchling that had a lot of us rethinking how attention actually works, we caught up at the Innodata GenAI Summit in London, and we're finally on X (@joinaicircle), so come follow us and help us escape zero-follower purgatory!
With CVPR, London Tech Week and Config around the corner, there's plenty ahead. Here's your roundup.
Community Growth
We welcomed 8 new members to the community this month. See the full list here and don't hesitate to reach out and connect.
Upcoming Events
🗽 NYC - 4th June: Curated Dinner with LILT
🇺🇸 CVPR - 5th June: Encord x AI Circle arcade night
🇺🇸 CVPR - 6th June: CoreWeave x AI Circle dinner
🇬🇧 LTW - 10th June: Global App Testing dinner: The Reality Gap: AI from Lab to Live
🇬🇧 LTW - 11th June: G2i x Nvidia boat party: Navigating the Frontier of AI
🌉 SF / Figma Config - 24th June with Contra: Creative Intelligence dinner
🌉 SF - 30th June: World Cup watch party with G2i and AI Engineer
🇫🇷 Paris - 7-9th July: Machina + RAISE Summit. Discount code: AICIRCLE20.
🌐 Online - see the full list here.
Keep an eye on the Luma calendar for next in-person events.
Past Events
🇺🇸 Seattle - 12th May: Frontier AI Evals Panel with Prolific (speakers from Amazon, Braintrust, Microsoft)
🇬🇧 London - 13th May: Curated Dinner with LILT
🗽 NYC - 16th May: Yankees v. Mets at Citi Field with Bland AI
🗽 NYC - 20th May: AI Circle x Contra - Frontier Creative AI: Model Signal through Divergence
🌉 SF - 26th May: Operationalising Agents Panel with Prolific
🌐 Capabilities Are All You Need: Fireside with Yoni Brander & Esther Derman (Innodata), moderated by Ken Morimoto
🌐 Transforming Programming Mindsets: Case Studies in Agentic Coding Adoption (David Hou)
🌐 Specialized Data Startup Hacks & the Model Commoditization Crisis (Trent Kannegieter)
🌐 The Anatomy of Customer Success: Org, Execution, and Building for Scale (Rebecca Holland, Vanessa Piacente, moderated by Sunny Shih)
🌐 BDH: The Missing Link between the Transformer and Models of the Brain (Jan Chorowski)
Recordings are up in the Circle App.
Community Highlights
Jan Chorowski walked us through Baby Dragon Hatchling (paper), a scale-free, brain-inspired LLM architecture where attention emerges from local graph dynamics.
We're on X, finally. Follow @joinaicircle and help us out of zero-follower territory.
Annotator onboarding thread on WhatsApp surfaced some great pointers: Greenhouse + Braintrust + G2i + custom fraud detection as a stack. Ping Jocelyn or Albert if you're building in this space.
Human data landscape: the team is putting together a mapping, reach out if you want to contribute.
RL gyms / RLVR training: a few members are actively building here, reach out if you want to connect.
Anything you want us to highlight next month? Drop us a note!
Housekeeping
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Monthly onboarding calls - 4th Wednesday of each month at 11am EST, open to all members. Watch the first one here
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See you soon!
The AI Circle team